Hello, this RFC is about the addition of a new field <remote-id type="debian"> to metadata.xml
The field should contain a list of the equivalent debian package names, or a defined string for NONE or UNSET. A feature request ticket was prepared here: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=619132 1. Motivation ============= Gentoo users and users of debian based distributions profit from linked packages: * can be used to embed screenshots from https://screenshots.debian.net in https://packages.gentoo.org/ * when writing/reading documentation which is written for debian like Linux distributions * scripts can automatically compare latest versions, critical bugs, from debian-like distributions and alert the interested maintainer or prepare statistics. A greasemonkey script can show a link in bugzilla and the maintainer can see open/solved bugs and the solutions on other distributions. * package names hardly differ between *buntu, mint, and debian so we cover a broad spectrum * Users who switch from debian like systems to gentoo, or administrate gentoo and debian like systems at the same time can find the corresponding packages quickly 2. Specification ================ A space separated list of the corresponding debian packages should be written in the field <remote-id type="debian"> </remote-id> It should be NONE, if debian has no corresponding package. UNSET or no field, if the creator of the ebuild did not set the field (yet). example: app-arch/tar/metadata.xml <remote-id type="debian">tar</remote-id> app-office/libreoffice-bin/metadata.xml <remote-id type="debian">libreoffice libreoffice-base libreoffice-base libreoffice-dev libreoffice-dmaths libreoffice-draw libreoffice-evolution libreoffice-impress</remote-id> 3. Backwards compatibility ========================== Fully compatible, no negative side effects to expect. 4. Comments =========== What do you think? Should we exclude translation packages, or just add them all? -- Best regards, Jonas Stein
